Parikshitsinh Jadeja

A little over a year ago, Parikshitsinh Jadeja was a ninth grader who couldn't finish his homework, "surviving school, not living it." Then he won his first national robotics competition — and discovered the difference between memorizing something and building something that didn't exist before. The output since has been astonishing. His flagship, EutroBot, is an autonomous robot that treats water pollution beneath the surface — not just skimming litter — validated with real contamination data from lakes in Vadodara across four prototypes, and recognized by IITs, IISc and Google. Off the back of it he founded Operation Jal Rakshak, a national clean-water initiative, and open-sourced AI tools including Vaani.ai, which screens for ALS from a person's voice offline. Now a researcher affiliated with MIT CSAIL and IISc Bangalore with three published papers to his name, Parikshitsinh is, in his own words, proof that the only currency that matters is the ability to think, build, and refuse to stop.